Emmerdale spoilers: Belle Dingle’s wedding to abuser Tom King ‘doomed’ as he makes discovery
Tom King (James Chase) has got more red flags than a bull fight and Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor Draper) still appears to be colour blind in Emmerdale.
His behaviour in general is a big fat worry, but in particular around their wedding his behaviour should be ringing alarm bells.
When Belle initially refused his proposal, Tom was absolutely outraged that she wasn’t ready to get married on his time scale.
Then, after she proposed to him (under pressure that he might leave her if she didn’t), he posted their news all over his socials without her permission. After Belle managed to come to terms with that, Tom shocked her again by booking their wedding date without so much as checking to see if Belle was free.
None of this has put her off, but the latest cause for concern is an ominous sign for the young couple that even she can’t ignore.
Tom is taking over the wedding and Belle is unhappy to have such little say in her big day. She demands Tom bring her in on the plans and is glad to finally be included as they organise the big stag and hen joint shindig, or the ‘Sten Do’ as it’s catchily nicknamed.
Tom asks Jimmy (Nick Miles) to be his best man but his uncle declines, what with everything going on. Belle begins to worry that a big celebration might be a bit insensitive, so the betrothed couple scale things back. Their one biggest cutback is on the bridesmaids and groomsmen – they plan not to have any. That is, unless Mandy gets her way.
It’s a bad sign that Belle is having to sacrifice everything she wants to fit Tom’s plans, but there’s worse to come when the pair are hit with the biggest omen; nosy Tom find’s Belle’s wedding dress. He seemingly innocently walks into Suzy’s office, but something tells us he probably knew exactly what he was doing.
Suzy (Martelle Edinborough) is mortified that she’s ruined the big reveal, and she goes on to drop another clanger when she casually shares that Marlon is making the wedding cake, with Tom not in the know.
He is not happy about being out of the loop and finds wearing the shoe being on the other foot particularly uncomfortable.
Suzy shows Belle her gorgeous wedding dress and the bride is delighted but is thrown when Suzy confesses – the wedding is now daubed in bad luck as the groom has already seen it.
The Sten kicks off and Mandy (Lisa Riley) and Sarah (Katie Hill) handcuff Belle and whip her off for a proper Hen do while Tom is left unhappy to have to celebrate his do without her.
Belle has an absolute ball with her girls around her, while Tom mopes and drinks himself into a stupor.
At the end of the night, Belle has to help her inebriated other half home where no doubt the topic of her dress will come up as he surely has some thoughts.
Will controlling Tom dictate what she can wear on her wedding day?